Death in Brittany
By: Jean-Luc Bannalec ; translated by Sorcha McDonagh
Contributors: Bannalec, Jean-Luc, 1966-; McDonagh, Sorcha, translator
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781250061744
Subjects: Hotelkeepers; Investigation; Murder; Fiction
Work titles: Bretonische Verhältnisse
Description: "Commissaire Georges Dupin, a Parisian-born caffeine junkie recently relocated from the glamour of Paris to the remote (if picturesque) Breton coast, is not happy when he is dragged from his morning croissant and coffee to the scene of a curious murder. The local village of Pont-Aven--a sleepy community by the sea where everyone knows one other and nothing much seems to happen--is in shock. The legendary ninety-one-year-old hotelier Pierre-Louis Pennec, owner of the Central Hotel, has been found dead"--Dust jacket flap.
Notes: Translation from the German of: Bretonische Verhältnisse.

This translation was first published in 2014 by Hesperus Nova under the title Death in Pont-Aven.

"A Thomas Dunne book."